well I know the only damn things i put here have been little snippets of conversations with people from the past 6 months of my life. its proabbly gotten dull as fuck and everyone saying xanga is dead and everything. well i would protest and i will but some other time.

Grandma :today is a very special day for me. for all of us. Today is the 5-year anniversary of grandpas death

Madi throws a softball with tremendous speed and accuracy at my dad. He starts raving about it.

"Hey Al, madi is just like you were, she has this amazing arm!"

Me: "Dad, what about me?"

"Oh! Em, well you were uh....you ..uh ..softball was not your strongsuit"

then he laughs at me for 10 minutes.

New years resolutions

Madi: um, Abi and Ayi, I have a resolution for you

Me and Allie: Yes?

Madi: Could you not laugh when I cry

• "The world as revealed by science is far more beautiful, and far more interesting, than we had any right to expect. Science is valuable because of the view of the universe that it gives. "
  George Greenstein, Sidney Dillon Professor of Astronomy, Amherst College
• "It seems to me incumbent upon this and other schools’ graduates to recognize their responsibility to the public interest…unless the graduates of this college…are willing to put back into our society those talents, the broad sympathy, the understanding, the compassion… then obviously the presuppositions upon which our democracy are based are bound to be fallible."
  John F. Kennedy, at the ground breaking for the Amherst College Frost Library, October 26, 1963
• " Stereotyped beliefs have the power to become self-fulfilling prophesies for behavior. "
  From Men and Women in Interaction, Reconsidering the Differences by Elizabeth Aries, Professor of Psychology, Amherst College

If you think you’re gonna act a certain way, you pigeon hole your whole persona.

• "Justice seems to require us to take the perspective of an impartial observer…Often this perspective seems to clash with the perspective that most of us take in our daily lives…where ties of love, commitment, friendship and professional responsibilities seem not only to permit, but to demand, that we treat people unequally."
  From Amherst, Summer 2001, Jyl Gentzler, Professor of Philosophy, Amherst College

What can I say about this. We are required to be objective when we are inherently subjective. Big fuckin deal.

• " Only in the mystery novel are we delivered final and unquestionable solutions. The joke to me is that fiction gives you a truth that reality can’t deliver."movies, tv
  Scott Turow, lawyer, author, Amherst College Trustee, Amherst Class of 1970
• " Young as she is, the stuff
  Of her life is a great cargo, and some of it heavy:
  I wish her a lucky passage. "
  From The Writer by Richard Wilbur, Amherst Class of 1942, 1987 Poet Laureate of the United States

we have to respond to one of these. Which one do any of you like best? the lavender ones are ones im pretty sure im not gonna do. But i am pretty impressionable.